Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Հատոր 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1787 |
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Արդյունքներ 43–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... carried away by that tor- rent of falfe and frivolous tafte , which never fails , when it is prevalent , to fweep along with it the raw and the ignorant . They who have never studied eloquence in its principles , nor have been trained ...
... carried away by that tor- rent of falfe and frivolous tafte , which never fails , when it is prevalent , to fweep along with it the raw and the ignorant . They who have never studied eloquence in its principles , nor have been trained ...
Էջ 39
... carry the fame authority , and have a title to regulate the Tafte of every individual . BUT have we then , it will be faid , no other criterion of what is beautiful , than the appro- bation of the majority ? Muft we collect the voices ...
... carry the fame authority , and have a title to regulate the Tafte of every individual . BUT have we then , it will be faid , no other criterion of what is beautiful , than the appro- bation of the majority ? Muft we collect the voices ...
Էջ 40
... carry us a certain length in judging concerning works of Tafte , it is not to be forgotten that the ultimate con- clufions to which our reasonings lead , refer at laft to fenfe and perception . We may specu- late and argue concerning ...
... carry us a certain length in judging concerning works of Tafte , it is not to be forgotten that the ultimate con- clufions to which our reasonings lead , refer at laft to fenfe and perception . We may specu- late and argue concerning ...
Էջ 42
... carry no authority . In those ftates of fociety , Tafte has no materials on which to operate . It is either totally fup- preffed , or appears in its lowest and most im- perfect form . We refer to the fentiments of mankind in polished ...
... carry no authority . In those ftates of fociety , Tafte has no materials on which to operate . It is either totally fup- preffed , or appears in its lowest and most im- perfect form . We refer to the fentiments of mankind in polished ...
Էջ 64
... carry fome Sublimity , though the conceptions which they afford us be confused and indiftinct . Their Sublimity arifes from the ideas , which they always con- vey , of fuperior power and might , joined with an awful obfcurity . We may ...
... carry fome Sublimity , though the conceptions which they afford us be confused and indiftinct . Their Sublimity arifes from the ideas , which they always con- vey , of fuperior power and might , joined with an awful obfcurity . We may ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Three Volumes ... Hugh Blair Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1783 |
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Էջ 75 - He made darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Էջ 62 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Էջ 426 - Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Էջ 426 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Էջ 395 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Էջ 85 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Էջ 427 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Էջ 66 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Էջ 79 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Էջ 416 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...